Karpov achieved a decent position from the opening. Unfortunately, he’s playing too slow. His last move 24.Ne6 is a minor blunder which gave Black an advantage. It’s definitely not a resignable position. Therefore, I have to believe that he lost on time.
Karpov (2644) – Kasparov (2812) [D72]
Valencia match Internet Chess Club (1), 22.09.2009
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nb6 7.Ne2 c5 8.d5 0–0 9.0–0 e6 10.Nbc3 Na6 11.h3 exd5 12.exd5 Nc4 13.b3 Nd6 14.Bf4 b6 15.Qd2 Bb7 16.Rad1 Nc7 17.g4 Qd7 18.a4 f5 19.g5 Rad8 20.Bg3 f4 21.Nxf4 Nf5 22.Nb5 Nxb5 23.axb5 Nd4 24.Ne6 Black wins 0–1
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He didn’t blunder. He would have if Kasparov had seen it, but he didn’t, otherwise he would have taken it immediately.
He just dropped the knight? Can that be?
Poor game quality from Karpov, as Kasparov had predicted.
2-0. Good start for Kasparov!
Rybka says Karpov was not losing at all after dropping the exchange, but who is Karpov compared to Rybka??
What’s the blunder?
Where is the blunder? Why did Karpov resign?
Computers say that black has a very slight almost non-existant advantage. Even when you play out the position it doesn’t change it’s evaluation.
Karpov saw a ghost here!
As far as I know Karpov lost on time.
What do you mean by computers? Rybka 3 thinks that black has the advantage here, not to mention the fact that white was playing on increments. Kasparov had over 8 minutes left. In other words: Karpov wouldn’t have been able to hold the position, given his time pressure.
Deep Rybka 3 Human x64 (Q6600) evaluation after 24.Ne6:
{-0.47, D=17}
24… Nxe6 25. dxe6 Qxd2 26. Rxd2 Rxd2 27. Bxb7 Rfd8 28. Bc7 R8d3 29. e7 Re2
30. Bd8 Kf7 31. Kg2 Bb2 32. Bc6 Rxe7 33. Bxe7 Kxe7 34. Re1+ Kd6 35. Re3 Rd2 36.
Rf3 Ke6 37. Re3+ Be5 38. Re4 {(0:05.23)Rybka 3 Human]}
-0.47
Yeah thats really a good reason to resign.
LOL!
The longer you leave Rybka to calculate, the less advantage it sees for black.
Karpov had no reason to resign here, based on the position on the board.
This was the interesting game of the day. Was Karpov better if he didn’t play ne6?
A typical Karpovian blunder!! Though not as bad as the game he lost to Tony Miles in eleven moves… WHILE HE WAS WORLD CHAMPION.
The point is after 50, as you pack on the years, you shave off the Elo. Age and Elo points are inversely proportional 🙂
Lasker once said, and I translate loosely from the original German: “If you shave your Elo it grows back twice as thick.”
I actually am not too impressed with 24…Ne6 and winning the exchange. How about 24…Bd5!?, gaining a pawn and enormous positional pressure for the exchange?
-Justin Daniel
kasparov always plays that attacking style against humans. it seems every move he makes is an offensive move and he ignores defense. that works against humans but a computer would kick his a ss if he plays that way. this is why he plays completly differently against computers.